King of Assassins-Chapter 892 - 636: Rules (Part 2)

Others might fear the Holy Hall, but he feels no such reverence.

To be frank, the Holy Hall belongs to him. Taking a Divine Crystal is like eating a peanut from a grandson's house—it's nothing.

However, such actions are troublesome. Gao Xuan dares not act openly.

While the matter hasn't been exposed yet, he should completely refine the Gold Element Divine Crystal first. Even if the headquarters comes searching, they won't find any traces.

After being decomposed, the Gold Element Divine Crystal transforms into countless tiny fragments of golden light, floating outside the Profound Sun Geng Metal Sword Seal.

Without deliberate guidance from Divine Soul Power, the Profound Sun Geng Metal Sword Seal can still absorb part of the crystal's power. But about eighty percent of the crystal's power will dissipate.

Gao Xuan guides the Profound Sun Geng Metal Sword Seal's operation, using Divine Soul Power to sequentially infuse tiny bits of golden light onto each intricate rune.

With millions of intricate runes on the Profound Sun Geng Metal Sword Seal, Gao Xuan must guide each rune to meld with the Divine Crystal.

Moreover, Gao Xuan must carefully allocate the crystal energy. Some runes require more, some need less. Overall balance of the rune seeds must also be maintained.

This job is not only extraordinarily tedious and complex, but it also requires profound understanding of the rune seeds.

For Gao Xuan, the Profound Sun Geng Metal Sword Seal is simple, and upgrading it is easy. His powerful Divine Soul can skillfully navigate these tasks.

In contrast, other Foundation Establishment Cultivators absolutely cannot achieve this.

Even for a Golden Core Cultivator, if they haven't specialized in this path, it's extremely difficult to use Divine Crystals for such refined upgrades of the rune array.

After the rune seeds of the Profound Sun Geng Metal Sword Seal absorbed the Divine Power Crystal, more runes naturally grew on the seeds.

This Dharma Seal originally had two million four hundred thousand runes, but the rune count has now doubled. The Profound Sun Geng Metal Sword Seal becomes bigger and more complex, with a more three-dimensional structure.

The newly generated Dharma Seal also establishes a tighter connection with Gao Xuan's Divine Soul.

This enhances Gao Xuan's effortless and efficient control over the sword seal, reaching the level of Seal Following Heart.

The level of the Dharma Seal clearly advances by one grade, reaching the Fifth Grade level.

In other words, the Profound Sun Geng Metal Sword Seal reaches the level of Fifth Grade Heart Enlightenment.

However, the Demon-Sundering Arm Blade is a magical artifact, with the Profound Sun Geng Metal Sword Seal as its core program, essentially software. To upgrade the Demon-Sundering Arm Blade to Fifth Grade, its hardware must also be upgraded.

The gold element Divine Crystal from the Three-headed Insect is quite strong, still having some surplus after remodeling the Profound Sun Geng Metal Sword Seal.

This surplus crystal energy is used by Gao Xuan to modify the material of the Demon-Sundering Arm Blade itself.

The magical artifact is a remarkable achievement in the cultivation system. It is a high-end fusion of energy and matter.

Using Divine Crystal energy to alter the material of the Demon-Sundering Arm Blade is also a normal operation.

Ordinary cultivators need to use more powerful specialized magical artifacts to accomplish such complex operations.

However, Gao Xuan's Divine Soul Power can penetrate to the particle level to transform the most important core of the Demon-Sundering Arm Blade.

For the Demon-Sundering Arm Blade, the most critical is actually the surface layer of Profound Gold structure.

Profound Gold is a metal created by smelting technology that integrates Source Power with special materials.

Profound Gold is extraordinarily compatible with Source Power and particularly tough and durable, capable of withstanding high temperatures and extreme cold. It is an incredibly strong material. However, Profound Gold is vulnerable to corrosive energies.

Like Yin Elemental Source Power, various exotic filthy energies, and Evil God pollution.

Originally, Gao Xuan intended to use Dragon Blood or something after gaining wealth to improve the Profound Gold.

With this Gold Element Divine Crystal, it's enough to upgrade Profound Gold fundamentally.

Using energy to directly alter matter incurs significant loss. Gao Xuan uses Divine Crystal energy at the particle level to change Profound Gold's structure, granting it stronger material properties.

This process is, in fact, more intricate and precise.

Normally, one person finding it challenging to accomplish such transformation, especially with no magical artifact for modification.

Modern magical artifact technology is sophisticated, and large-scale artifacts are more precise than modern scientific equipment. Such precision far exceeds the limits of Golden Core Cultivators.

Gao Xuan, utilizing Divine Techniques where his Divine Soul illuminates everything, overcame impossible technical hurdles, successfully transforming the Demon-Sundering Arm Blade.

On the surface, the Dark Gold Demon-Sundering Arm Blade shows no change, but its actual grade reaches Fifth Grade.

Sixth Grade Refinement, Fifth Grade Heart Enlightenment.

The so-called refinement refers to the meticulous transformation of Source Power, mirroring to an extremely subtle level with the Divine Soul.

It's this level of change that increases a cultivator's efficiency in controlling Source Power tenfold or hundredfold.

The same amount of Source Power can unleash ultimate might with a Sixth Grade spiritual artifact. This is the strength of a Sixth Grade spiritual artifact.

At the Fifth Grade Heart Enlightenment, the spiritual artifact and the heart mirror each other like reflections. At this level, the control of the artifact reaches the Unity of Heart and Artifact realm.

The heart's wishes reflect the artifact's actions.

This level isn't just about more efficient Source Power operations but also more efficient operations of the artifact. Simultaneously, it signifies a substantial enhancement at the Divine Soul level.

Thus, Heart Enlightenment as a grade can measure a cultivator's cultivation, measure Evil God Divine Crystals, etc. This is a stringent standard that can be measured very specifically.

Reflected at the artifact level, firstly it observes the artifact's handling of Source Power, secondly, the condition of the artifact's rune seeds.

Gao Xuan merges the Divine Crystal into the Demon-Sundering Arm Blade, allowing this spiritual artifact to complete its transformation in essence.

Gao Xuan can distinctly feel the Demon-Sundering Arm Blade is more in tune with his Divine Soul, making control easier.

Previously, he could fully activate the Demon-Sundering Arm Blade up to five times. With its greatly enhanced power this time, the number of full activations increases instead.

This is the strength of the Divine Crystal. It can simultaneously enhance rune seeds and the material of spiritual artifacts. It bridges the gap between energy and matter.

Normally, upgrading an artifact's grade is tremendously troublesome, requiring various materials, a large amount of special resources, and a highly skilled Artifact Refiner.

Now, with the Divine Crystal, everything is simplified. Of course, this is also due to Gao Xuan's powerful Divine Soul, with a deep, subtle understanding of the artifact's essence to achieve this.

For others, even with a Divine Crystal, they couldn't directly upgrade the artifact's grade.

This is actually a shortcut for upgrading...

Gao Xuan starts contemplating whether he should specifically hunt a few Evil Gods of this type to expedite enhancing the few spiritual artifacts he has.

After all, with so many Evil Gods here, withholding a few Divine Crystals wouldn't cause an issue.

Moreover, he also needs to help Yuan Youyuan refine the Divine Crystal, enhancing the Profound Yin Soul Slaying Whip. Since the young woman has boarded his pirate ship, she shouldn't think about running away.

While Gao Xuan and Yuan Youyuan are getting intimate, Yuan Tiejiang is daydreaming in his office.

Yuan Tiejiang has besieged the Three-headed Insect multiple times, becoming quite familiar with it. Particularly, its nearly indestructible carapace left a profound impression on him.

An Evil God condenses a Divine Crystal, corresponding to its Talent Power. But the crystal from the Three-headed Insect that Gao Xuan submitted is of the Fire Elemental Source Power Attribute. This seems unreasonable...

The quality of this crystal is high, but it pales slightly in comparison to the formidable Three-headed Insect. Notably, it lacks a corresponding Gold Element Divine Crystal.

Of course, the process of condensing Divine Crystals is inherently filled with randomness. It makes sense for the Three-headed Insect to condense only one Divine Crystal.

Yuan Tiejiang has opinions about Gao Xuan and Yuan Youyuan but respects their power and is pleased that they slayed an Evil God.

However, Divine Crystals must not be privately retained; this is a strict rule of the Holy Hall.

As the person in charge of the Red Light Star Sanctuary, should Gao Xuan or Yuan Youyuan actually privately retain a Divine Crystal, he would bear significant responsibility.

Yuan Tiejiang has no desire to inform on them, but such matters leave no room for favoritism or personal bias.

When he held the Divine Crystal, it was actually a chance given to Gao Xuan. If Gao Xuan had produced the Divine Crystal at that time, Yuan Tiejiang could let the matter slide.

Yet, Gao Xuan remained unresponsive. Yuan Youyuan, though also seemingly unfazed, appeared somewhat unnatural.

While the young girl is smart, she is ultimately immature, much less seasoned than the experienced Gao Xuan.

Yuan Tiejiang, after weighing carefully, decided anyway to write a report to headquarters.

According to regulations, he also sent copies to Huang Tingdao and Yuan Ping at the Cloud Light Star Sanctuary.

Yuan Ping holds the highest position on the Red Light Star, so she is entitled to receive a copy.

Upon receiving the report, Yuan Ping immediately went to Yuan Tiejiang's office, sternly asking, "What are you doing?"

Yuan Tiejiang replied calmly, "I am merely acting according to regulations."

Yuan Ping was very angry, "Do you realize the immense harm this can cause for those two kids?"

"If they didn't do it, nothing will happen."

Yuan Tiejiang responded coldly, "If they did it, then they must bear responsibility for their actions."

Yuan Ping became even angrier, "If they didn't do it, you are falsely accusing them, and I will definitely hold you accountable."

Yuan Tiejiang, without looking at Yuan Ping, said calmly, "I do what I ought to do, and you do what you ought to. Everyone follows the rules. Whatever consequences arise, everyone bears them, that's all."